教学文学硕士-西班牙语教育

此基于课程的高级学位通过为学生提供学习理论，教学策略，评估模式和技术/媒体方法的相关课程来为学生做好准备。实习和助教会完善课程，其中包括来自教育心理学的投入。我们的计划将为您提供在亚利桑那州获得中学教育认证的途径，同时使您能够提高西班牙语水平。您将在教学和教学法，文学和文化以及语言学方面获得专业基础，从而为在迅速变化的教室中精通英语和传统语言的人做好准备。您也可以应用所学的理论和策略来教低年级的西班牙语课。
Our program will provide you with a pathway for secondary education certification in Arizona while allowing you to improve your abilities in Spanish. You will gain a professional foundation in teaching and pedagogy, literature and culture, and linguistics to prepare you to excel in a rapidly changing classroom with an increasing number of bilingual and heritage language speakers. You may also apply the theories and strategies you learn to teach lower-division Spanish classes. The M.A.T. Spanish Education allows candidates to obtain an Arizona Secondary Teaching Certificate in Spanish. Candidates take graduate courses (46 hours) in Spanish linguistics, literature, second language acquisition theory, and foreign language methods, as well as required courses in professional education (including educational psychology and Structured English Immersion). The linguistics courses foster abilities and knowledge about language (phonology, syntax, morphology, pragmatics) as well as sociocultural knowledge. Literature courses foster aesthetic awareness as well as Peninsular and Latin American history and culture. Our foreign-language methods courses are taught by aculty actively involved in research on foreign-language pedagogy and second-language acquisition. Candidates must complete Methods of Spanish Instruction to develop skills in current teaching strategies and approaches. They must also complete Curriculum Design to develop an entire curricula based on best practices and standards. Additionally, candidates complete Media and Technology in Spanish Language Instruction to develop in-depth understanding of the current theories (e.g., psycholinguistic, cognitive) of second and foreign-language acquisition.